Blacking-receptacle for blacking-stands



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A. POPOPP. BLAGKING REGEPTAGLE FOR BLAGKING STANDS.

No. 476,066. Patented May 31, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATILDA A. POPOFF, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

BLACKlNG-RECEPTACLE FOR BLAC KlNG-STANDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,066, dated May 31,1892. Application filed March 23, 1892. Serial No. 426 053. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MATILDA A. POPOFF, of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Blacking-Receptacle for Blacking- Stands,of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in blacking-receptacles adaptedespecially for use in connection with blacking-stands; and the object ofthe invention is to provide a receptacle especially adapted for thereception of blacking in bottles and like packages and -to so constructthe receptacle that a bottle may be securely held therein and the mouthexposed, thus enabling the dauber to be removed from the bottle with onehand, as the bottle will be held firmly in place.

Another object of the invention is to construct the receptacle in such amanner as to enable it to receive in locking engagement bottles or likepackages of various heights and to provide a means whereby the bottle orpackage containing the blacking may be expeditiously and convenientlyremoved when empty and replaced by a full bottle or package.

The invention consistsin the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in whichsiinilar figures and letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a blacking-stand, illustrating theapplication of the improved blacking box or receptacle thereto. Fig. 2is a central vertical section through the improved blacking box orstand, illustrating a bottle in position therein; and Fig. 3 is a frontelevation of the box or receptacle.

In carrying out the invention the box or receptacle A is made,preferably, rectangular in cross-section, but in cross-section the boxor receptacle may be shaped as fancy may dictate. The box is closed uponfour sides and is also provided with a bottom. The sides I havedesignated as 10 and 11, the front as 12, and the back as 13, while thebottom is designated by the reference-numeral 14. The front of the boxis shorter than the sides and the back, and in the inner faces of thesides 10 and 11 a series of horizontal grooves 15 is prod uced, arrangedone above the other at predetermined intervals apart. These grooves areadapted for the reception of alid 16, provided at its sides with tongues17, adapted to enter the grooves in the sides of the body of the box.When the lid is in the upper grooves of the body, the upper face of thelid is preferably flush with the upper edges of the body. The lid isprovided at or near its forward'end with an attached knob 18, and in itsrear edge a recess 19 is produced, which extends some distance inward indirection of the center.

When a bottle 20 containing blacking has been placed in the body of thebox or receptacle A,the lid is entered in the transverselyaligninggrooves 15, which Will cause the neck of the bottle to enter the recess19 when the lid is slid over the body, and yet permit the mouth of thebottle to be above the upper surface of the lid, or practically so; andwhen the lid is thus placed around the neck of the bottle the uppershoulders of the bottle will be beneath the lid, thus enabling a personby using but one hand to remove the stopper 21 from the bottle, to whichstopper the dauber 22 is attached, and the dauber may be drawn out fromthe bottle without danger of spilling or spraying the liquid blacking,as the bottle in which the blacking is contained will be firmly held inan upright position. The advantages of such a box or receptacle as anaddition to a blacking-stand is apparent, as it enables the stand to beused by women with as much convenience and facility as when now used bymen.

In Fig. 1 I have illustrated a blacking-stand in which the foot r-est 23is shown at the center thereof, and the improved receptacle is shown aslocated at one side of the foot-rest, while a clamp or support 24,adapted to receive a box of cakeblacking is shown as placed at theopposite side of the rest. It will be understood, however, that theimproved receptacle may be given any position that fancy may dictate inthe blacking-stand and that the stand in connection with which it isused may be of any well-known character.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- Y 1. A receptacle or holder for liquid blacking,consisting of a box like body provided with a series of grooves arrangedone above the other, and a lid or cover adapted to slide in the grooves,the said lid or cover being provided With an opening through Which theneck of a bottle may extend, substantially as shown and described.

2. A receptacle or holder for bottles containing liquid blaeking orother liquids, consisting of a box-like body having an opening in oneside and a series of grooves or channels emanating from the opening andarranged one above the other, and a lid adapted to slide in said groovesor channels and provided with a recess or opening produced in one edge,the said recess or opening being adapted to receive the neck of a bottlecontained in the receptacle or holder, as and for the purpose set forth.

MATILDA A. POPOFF. Witnesses:

P. J. POPOFF, T. PoLEvoY.

